Puzzle



(No Model.) 2 Sheets-S,heet 1. P. G. FRANK.

PUZZLE.

Patented Sept 1, 1896.

(No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet 2. P. G. FRANK.

PUZZLE. No. 566,864. Patented Sept. 1, 1896.

UNITED STATES PArN'r Fries.

PAIIL G. FRANK, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO.

PUZZLE.

SFECIFIGATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 566,85d, datedSeptember 1, 1896.

Application filed June 15, 1896. Serial No. 595.622. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it raw-y concern/.-

Be it known that I, PAUL G. FRANK, a citizen of the United States, and aresident of the city of Cincinnati, in the county of Hamilton and Stateof Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inPicture-Puzzles, of which the following is a specification.

The several features of my invention and the various advantagesresulting from their use, conjoinily or otherwise, will be apparent fromthe following description and claims.

In the accompanying drawings, making a part of this specification, andin which similar letters and figures of reference indicate correspondingparts, Figure 1, Sheet 1, represents the rear side of card illustratingmyinvention. Fig. 2, same sheet, represents the same card, one of theexternal portions between the slits being turned over and down in theprocess of forming a given picture. Fig. 3, same sheet, shows twoexternal portions turned over and down in the formation of the picture.Fig. at, same sheet, represents three of the external portions turnedover and down in the forming of the picture. Fig. 5, same sheet,represents yet other external portions turned over and down, these fourexternal portions thus turned down in the order of sequence shownforming a completed picture as presented. On Sheet 2, Fig. 6 is a viewof the front or pictured side of the card. Fig. 7 is a View of the backside thereof, and showing one lap or external portion turned over anddown to form a new picture. Fig. 8 shows two laps turned over and down.Fig. 0 shows three laps thus disposed. Fig. 10 shows four laps turnedover and down in proper sequence and producing a complete picture.

I will now proceed to describe in detail the invention alreadysuggestively indicated by the drawings. I take a sheet of paper oranalogous material and reduce it to a shape of acircular or polygonalform. I out slits A in radial lines toward its center. The centralportion B is thus left a disk or an equal-sided polygon. This centralportion may or not contain a picture orportion of a picture. Theexternal portions 0 between the slits contain parts of a picture. Theseportions, when turned over and back upon the central portion,OODll'llIlQ with each other to form pictures, and when the centralportion carries a picture or part thereof preferably combint: with that.The central picturing would be on that side of portion 13 which isopposite t those sides of the external portions or laps 1. on whichpicturing is formed. The design;- on each lap B are preferably placed-inan in consequential order, so as to compel the one attempting to guessthe puzzles to exercise some studying and skill in solving the puzzle.Thus the operator is compelled to try various combinations of the laps Cbefore-he succeeds in obtaining the proper combination to pro duce agiven design or picture. These designs and pictures may be instructiveor merely amusing, or combine instruction with am usement. They may alsobe artistic to a greater or less degree. In the illustrative examplesgiven on Sheets 1 and 2 the designs are simply am using.

I will now proceed to describe these illustrative examples. I turn overlap-piece 1 1 and fold it back, (see Fig. 2,) and then fold V over andback lappiece 1 2. (See Fig. 3.) I next fold over and back lap-piece l3, (see Fig. 4,) and, lastly, fold over and back lap-piece 1 at. Thislast move completes the picture, which is that of a man wearing anelongated fez capviz., smoking-capand holding in his mouth a pipe inwhich he is smoking tobacco or like substance.

In the second illustrative instance I fold over and back the lap-piece 21, (see Fig. 7,) and then do likewise with lap-piece 2 2, (see Fig. 8,)and then fold backupon these the lap-piece 2 3 (see Fig. 9) and completethe picture by folding lap-piece 2 t over and back upon the otherlap-pieces of this second series and previously folded back. Theresulting picture consists of a man wearing a tall hat, having a highpointed collar, and smoking a cigar.

Referring to Fig. 6, an inspection will convince the examiner that threeother pictures can be produced by means of the lap-pieces. Thus thelap-pieces, respectively marked 3 1, 3 2, 3 3, folded over and backsuccessively as named, represcn t a man wearing a blouse and on his heada stovepipe hat surmounted by a rosette and holding acigar protrudingfrom one side of his mouth, while tobacco-smoke issues from the otherside thereof. The lappieces 41,4 2, and .43, moved in like man ner,present the picture of a rough-looking man Wearing a cap on the back ofhis head and smokinga pipe. Finally, the lap-pieces, respectivelynumbered 5 1, 5 2, 5 3, when successively folded over and back form apicture of a fat fellow, somewhat bald, smoking a pipe. It will beobserved that a number of the lap-pieces are used more than once informing combinations (pictures) presented. Ordinarily the numbers, as 1l, 1 2, &c.,designating the lap-pieces necessary to form a given pictureand also indicating the order in which the lap-pieces are to be foldedover and down will be omitted, thereby enhancingthe difficulty offorming the pictures and the consequent pleasure of finally obtainingthe said pictures; but such indicative numbers or designating charactersforalike purpose may; It is thus obvious that my invention is notonlyingenious,

be employed when desired.

but is capable of aifording much pleasure and entertainment, and mayalso be made instructive and profitable. As heretofore suggested, anysuitable design or picture or part thereof may be placed on the centerportion B of the card, and this pictured portion D may and will usuallycooperate with one or more of the combinations made by the turned-overlap-pieces O to form a complete design or produce a fuller picture. Ihave therefore presented a suggestive illustration of the use of thecenter. A mosquito D is located thereon, and in connectionwith a pictureor portion thereof formed by the lappieces shows the mosquito, Fig. 5,in the act of attacking the nose of the smoker. The position of themosquito, if present on the card of Figs. 6 to 10, inclusive, would beat the point indicated by the character D; but as it plays no part inthe design shown by the turned-down lap-pieces of Figs. 7 to 10 it isomitted from the said figures, but will be understood as being thereon.The uses of the center in connection with the lappieces in formingpictures or designs are widely varied and broadly inclusive.

What I claim as new and of myinvention, and desire to secure by LettersPatent, is-

1. A sheet of a circular or polygonal form, having slits cut in radiallines toward its center, the center part beingacircle or equalsidedpolygon, the exterior portions between the slits containing portions ofapicture, and which portions may turn over and in combination form aresultant picture, substantially as and for the purposes specified.

2. A sheet of a circular or polygonal form, having slits cut in radiallines toward its center, the center part being a circle or equalsidedpolygon, the exterior portions between the slits containing portions ofapicture, and which portions may turn over and in proper sequence form aresultant picture, substan tially as and for the purposes specified.

3. A sheet of a circular or polygonal form, having slits cut in radiallines toward its center, the center part being a circle or equalsidedpolygon, the center containing a picture or part thereof, and theexterior portions between the slits containing portions of a picture onthe side of the card opposite to that on which the central picture ordesign is made, which external portions may turn over, and united withthe central part form additions to the picture, substantially as and forthe purposes specified.

4. A sheet of a circular or polygonal form, having slits out in radiallines toward its center, the center part being a circle or equalsidedpolygon, the exterior portions between the slits containing portions ofa picture, and which portions may turn over and in proper sequence forma resultant picture, the several external portions or lap-pieces beingdesignated by characters indicating the pieces necessary to form a givenpicture, and the order in which these pieces are to be folded over andback, substantially as and for the purposes specified.

PAUL G. FRANK.

Attest:

WM. E. JONES, K. SMITH.

